Hyperreality
We live in a reality defined by images and representations - a state of simulacrum. This is a state of hyperreality. In a postmodern...
Hipsters as Postmodern Creations
As I said before, there is a big amount of debate over the definition of postmodernism – when and where it occurs for example and what it...
Postmodernism and the Media
What is it? The concept is one that has become really useful in the analysis and understanding of contemporary media cuItture but...
Gender in the Media
The media can be an important actor in the promotion of gender equality. The media can help to make the people realize that the uncommon...
Audience Studies
We must admit that audiences are easily duped into thinking whatever the director/journalist/author wants them to think. There have been...
Semiotics. Everything is a text
I was not very sure of the actual meaning of semiotics before starting with this lesson, it was definitely eye-openning. We begun the...
Gatekeepers
When we think about what happened last week in the world the most important piece of new most people would agree that to be the Greece...
Framing. How many muslims live in Europe?
This image shows that the actual population of muslims in Europe is definitely lower than the percentage that public estimates. How can...
Agenda Setting
"The press may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers...
Basque Nationalism and The Spiral of Silence
In order to understand the Spiral of Silence theory a little bit better we were told to read some interesting pages of a study made in...
